Matthew Ellis, who promoter Frank Warren wants to match with Audley Harrison in an eliminator for the British heavyweight championship, appears on the undercard to Takaloo?s world lightmiddleweight title defence at York Hall, Bethnal Green, tomorrow.

Don Boyd's movie is an uneasy collision between state-of-the-art digital filmmaking techniques and operatic melodrama. Based on Scott's Bride of Lammermoor and Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor, Boyd's script dusts off the concept in which the performers find themselves in a similar situation to the characters they are playing, territory that needs the sure-footedness of Carlos Saura to work effectively.